Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Be not a slave of words.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Silence is more eloquent than words.